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- DirectorHaro SenftStarsJost VobeckIngeborg SchönerPaul Albert KrummAfter witnessing a kidnapping, a young man in Munich gets involved in trying to free the victim. His partisanship makes him a suspect and he has to justify his actions in an interrogation.
- DirectorPhilippe CondroyerStarsJean-Louis TrintignantValérie LagrangeLuis PrendesBarcelona, 1967. Hans Fromm, a German-born architect, lives an well-ordered everyday life. He has become the target of an antifascist death squad though. Indeed their leader, Julius, whose brother was killed by Schmidt, a merciless S.S., believes, without being absolutely certain, that Fromm and Schmidt are the same man. The team, whose other members are Georges, the son of a deportee liquidated by Schmidt craving for action, Raphaël, a mercenary type, Nils, the photographer and Romain, watch Fromm's every move until Julius, convinced at last that the quiet German is their man, gives the green light for the operation. They manage to lure the former Nazi to an old house but Schmidt/Fromm won't let himself be captured so easily...
- DirectorThomas KoerferStarsArmin Mueller-StahlKatharina ThalbachMatthias HabichAndre Korb is a Swiss boy. In Switzerland, his father, François enjoys relations with the Third Reich. The Korbs also have a Polish refugee, Anna. When she returns years later, she sees Andres. The reunion wakens shared childhood memories.
- DirectorThomas KoerferStarsFrançois SimonRoger JendlyMonica BleibtreuA ramshackle group of actors who struggle to resurrect a Voltaire play about conquistadors.
- DirectorPatrick ConradHenri StorckStarsJean-Michel ArnoldHélène BallingsAnuska BodiWhen Anna, a twenty-eight-year-old photographer, is put in charge of a report on the restoration works at The Ostend Museum of Modern Art, she discovers by chance five paintings signed Constant Permeke, whose power and mystery move and fascinate her.She decides to embark on a quest to find out about who Permeke actually was, the places where he lived, how he worked, what experiences he went through.
- DirectorArmand De HeselleLuk GubbelsStarsFrançois BeukelaersChris CauwenberghsMarc PeetersJean, an ex-colonial, and his girlfriend Nadia run the Congo Express bar, a meeting place for three different generations and their stories.
- DirectorAdimaro SalaStarsLisa GastoniRaoul GrassilliDino MeleThe nature of love and marriage is studied in two episodes.
- DirectorDaniel ZutaStarsKlaus BuebRudi DelhemMatthias Fuchs
- DirectorGiulio ParadisiStarsStefano ArquillaEnnio PanosettiRita TushinghamA boy from the Roman suburbs makes ends meet with petty thefts that do not satisfy him.
- DirectorFrancis LeroiStarsAude OlivierGaëtane LorreAndré OumanskyTwo young girls, the one a cicada, a bohemian, the other a busy bee and revolutionary, in an imaginary land, at an unspecified time.
- DirectorMichael SchottenbergStarsAndras JonesMaria BillUmberto ConteAverill's visually ambitious allegory of the Oedipus tale of his unavoidable destiny.
- DirectorMichael SchottenbergStarsRegula BillGerhard ZemannHerta BöhmHopfner runs a gas station together with his wife Helga. They both prepare for a dance competition. A prostitute from a nearby brothel bears a striking resemblance to his wife, leading him to hatch a plan to get rid of Helga.
- DirectorHans NoeverStarsMichel PiccoliMartin WestMarilyn ClarkJoseph Randolph, who's a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it's simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it.
- DirectorMarran GosovStarsHelga AndersRoger FritzHarald LeipnitzA male model, tired of expensive products he cannot afford to own, decides to become a bank robber. But his affair with a married woman who is after suspense and adventure, leads to trouble.
- DirectorOlivier NolinStarsCorinne DaclaBertrand WaintropCatherine RouvelJulien, fifteen-year-old, meets Nathalie, a girl his age whom he falls in love. Soon she is expecting a child. Their parents take the news with reservations. The baby will come and with it, the difficult learning of life.
- DirectorMichel WormsStarsMaurice RonetEmmanuelle RivaSylva KoscinaWhile on a train to Rome, Léon muses about his love life after leaving his wife.
- DirectorMarcel HanounCatherine BinetStarsMichael LonsdaleRaymonde GodeauVéronique AndrièsA surreal juxtaposition French film about two people that never meet nor come close to. One, a young male outlaw, and the other a young woman going through puberty/sexual development for the first time.
- DirectorMarcel HanounStarsAnne BellecJean de GasparyJuliette Le ClercA couple in a hotel room in Brussels. A painting by Brueghel. In this painting, a mystery.
- DirectorMarcel HanounStarsLorraine BonnemaisonGérard RouzierFlorence RousseauEurydice's quest is that of the film to be made, in the process of being made, the quest for the places where she will be Eurydice before she dies cinematographic for having turned around too often on the camera's eye-trap.
- DirectorJean-Jacques Grand-JouanStarsMartin LamotteVéronique GenestVirginie ThévenetBarely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.
- DirectorPierre-Jean de San BartoloméStarsEugène IonescoIsabelle AdjaniEmmanuelle RivaA dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.
- DirectorRobert BenayounStarsJane BirkinRichard LeducGeorges MansartThe road trip adventures of Bruno, Patrice and Ariane -- two men and a woman who live happily together in a polyamorous relationship.
- DirectorMarcel GislerStarsRudolf NadlerDina LeipzigLutz DeisingerAbout a trio who take shelter in a friend's apartment while he is away for awhile. One of the trio is Lola who teaches French on the side, maintains an out-of-sight hairstyle, and has a 10-year-old son. Another of the trio is a homosexual who supports himself by playing his flute on the street or reading to elderly women. The last friend in the group is Max, whose parents are sending him steady installments of cash to pay for non-existent studies; it seems Max is a writer waiting for inspiration to hit. In the meantime, he and Lola are an item. In the background is West Berlin itself, with its cafes, bars, nightclubs, and street life.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsYutaka MizutaniToshiyuki NagashimaRie NakaharaThere is a shooting at a small bookstore in town. When the police arrive they find three victims two of whom have already died. One of the dead uttered something strange before dying. The criminal has fled the scene. Coincidentally, one of the victims is the girlfriend of one of the policemen.
- DirectorMemè PerliniStarsGeneviève PageLindsay KempChristiana BorghiAn old actress is the owner of a boarding house for people in the entertainment industry.
- DirectorCesare CanevariStarsRaffaele CuriPia GiancaroAlessandro QuasimodoThe turbulent vicissitudes of the young protagonist are perpetually divided between an ironic candor and a legitimate desire for revenge.
- DirectorXavier VillaverdeStarsEusebio PoncelaJorge SanzCristina MarcosIn the late 1950s, after assassinating the mythical kingpin Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival bosses and old friends, fight with their gangs for control of prostitution and smuggling. Anabel, Ventura's favorite prostitute and her young lover, will live their passion amid the violence that surrounds the port city.
- DirectorBertrand Van EffenterreStarsGérard KleinBrigitte FosseyJulie JézéquelThe erratic life of Patrice who, after having murdered the pimp of his mother to avenge the death of her, goes from town to town.
- DirectorFranco RossiStarsAlain NouryRoberto LandeLeonard MannFerrara, 1936-1941. Giordano and Mariuccia, brother and sister, form a consolidated trio of friends with Giulio. The first two belong to the agrarian middle class, while the third is of more humble origins. When Fascism raged with the proclamation of the Empire and the war of Spain, they were about twenty years old. Behind their apparent light-heartedness, there is a growing restlessness: Giordano, in contrast to his father, a convinced assertor of the regime, matures a convinced anti-fascist conscience, Giulio adheres to Fascism in an increasingly critical way and at the same time conceives an impossible love for Mariuccia. In the end the outbreak of the Second World War definitively divides the destinies of the three young people.
- DirectorRoger HaninStarsGeorges GéretBruno CremerRobert Hossein
- DirectorAlain FleischerStarsCatherine JourdanInside an apartment, a young woman suffers from widespread distress. She lives alone in an attic with a skylight in the ceiling that is her only contact with the outside of Paris.
- DirectorAlain FleischerStarsCatherine JourdanKlaus KinskiPierre ClémentiEva is a singer at Noah's Ark nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart.
- DirectorGrzegorz KrólikiewiczStarsFranciszek TrzeciakBeata TyszkiewiczBeata TumkiewiczMichal Toporny is a poor country boy whose determination and hard work help him climb the social ladder and become the head of a large factory in the city. But at what cost?
- DirectorGrzegorz KrólikiewiczStarsLeon NiemczykJanusz KrawczykKrzysztof KursaA Polish captain and lieutenant are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War. Well water and large supplies of food and candles allow them to survive. The captain falls into madness, becomes aggressive, finally commits suicide. The lieutenant agrees with his fate, keeps a diary, and after a few years he finds a living worker undressing the fort's underground.
- DirectorAntony WeberStarsSandy CareyMichael AbbottJohn MartinYear 2062, the land is barren, post-apocalyptic vision of hell on earth. Environmental pollution, human callousness and evil. Marauding gangs of motorcyclists, violence and rape.
- DirectorDaniel DuvalStarsPhilippe LéotardAlbert DrayZoé ChauveauIn the north of France, the life of a nice family of marginalized.
- DirectorRobin DavisStarsBernard BlierJacques DufilhoAlida ValliAuthoritarian tenant Victor makes life impossible for Anselme, an old friend whose apartment he's shared since the death of his wife Louise. One day, after once again being humiliated in public by Victor, Anselme decides to take revenge.
- DirectorVictor J. TognolaStarsDino ContiAdelheid KochFranca Maria De MontiJohnny is an illusionist who tours the various local theaters with his magic box act. The act involves his wife, Ramona, who steps into a large box which is then pierced with swords and knives. A crank is turned and sausages emerge from the other side which are then offered to the audience. One night when he opens the box the audience reaction is unusually ecstatic. Johnny looks inside and discovers to his horror that his wife is no longer there. She has simply vanished. His colleagues and the director of the theatre ask him how he managed to make the woman disappear, but Johnny has no idea how it happened. He rushes off to look for her. He returns to his home town where he first met her and visits her mother. He goes back to all the places of his childhood and to all the possible places where he might find her. But his search is fruitless. He begins to realize that he was living in a dream world before, but the sudden jolt caused by Ramona's disappearance has now made him feel oddly much more alive. The show must go on, however, and he must find another woman to replace Ramona. Life goes with its daily engagements and commitments. Johnny, having once had a glimpse of objective reality, feels its intensity fading away. Ramona turns up unexpectedly one evening - but only for a moment. She slips away again, leaving Johnny bewildered. When he finally finds her he realizes that she, like he and everyone else, has only played her own rôle in a world of habits and conventions that has little to do with reality. Johnny sadly comes to understand that life is closer to a dream, an illusion, and that objective reality (that which makes us feel intensely alive and separates us from the dream) is almost always out of our reach.
- DirectorLiko PérezSantiago San MiguelStarsIsabel MestresCarlos MárquezCecilia VillarrealAlicia is a lonely ten-year-old girl who, due to lack of affection from her family and schoolmates, takes refuge in the photo-novels and in her father's cinema films, creating their own fantasy world that is often mistaken for reality.
- DirectorVirginie ThévenetStarsMyriam DavidGaël SeguinLudovic HenryElisa and Eric are two teenage war orphans. They change their apartment on the outskirts of the city into a photo-studio to make a living, and they are very devoted to it. The two seem to live like heavenly beings without connecting to the outside world. Their only contact with the exterior is through Jacques, a loyal friend, but he also cuts himself out of any social life. The sister and the brother then take to get in touch with the world by Mrs Jean, a friend of their deceased mother with whom Elisa takes courses of singing. They live in harmony until a young man, whom Elisa falls for, eventually leaves with Eric for the USA and left her brokenhearted alone in France.
- DirectorAdolfo ArrietaStarsAnne WiazemskyAdolfo ArrietaXavier GrandèsIn the Monkey Island, populated by men and frog women, spies covet sacred frogs.
- DirectorIgnasi P. FerréStarsRamon FerreCarmen SerretJoan BorràsA scientist has discovered a formula that brings the dead back to life. Meanwhile, a prostitute, who dreams of writing a book in a brothel, meets a true writer with whom she falls in love. A satanic sect will cross into their lives.
- DirectorAdolfo ArrietaStarsMichèle MorettiHoward VernonXavier GrandèsThe ex-wife of a famous sculptor convinces her lover to steal one of her former husband's works and then replace it with a live model for the exhibition.
- DirectorGuy GillesStarsMacha MérilRichard BerryJacques PenotTo escape anonymity, a young man takes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.
- DirectorPierre PhilippeStarsSylvie FennecBéatrice ArnacDaniel EmilforkA woman marries into a family of insane psychopaths.
- DirectorAlfonso UngríaStarsCarlos OteroYelena SamarinaJulieta SerranoA republican, former combatant of the Spanish Civil War, remains hidden in a room of the family home during the years of the Franco dictatorship. By dint of being isolated from the outside for so long, and despite receiving the visit of friends and family, the man ends up developing a behavior full of oddities.
- DirectorAlfonso UngríaStarsFernando Fernán GómezYolanda FarrEnrique FernándezA mature recluse takes refuge in a town inhabited by a troupe of dwarfs and discovers that the chief keeps a beautiful woman hidden in a tower. He ends up becoming its leader.
- DirectorJosé PinheiroStarsJeanne MoreauJacqueline MaillanAndré DussollierMarivaudages of a privileged group embarked on the "Narcissus" for a musical cruise in company of the famous diva La Doria.
- DirectorAbdulkadir Ahmed SaidSaid SalahStarsSheikh Osman OmarYusuf Haji AdanHassan AbdulleCentering on the revolutionary Dervish State and its influential leader, Muhammad Abdullah Hassan (the "Mad Mullah") is an epic on the grandest scale. The film follows Hassan's life from his roots as a humble mullah to a revolutionary anti-colonial leader that fought off the British Empire for more than two decades.
- DirectorAlberto BevilacquaStarsFranco FranchiMaurizio MerliAndrea RoncatoTango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a slaughterhouse.
- DirectorRamón ObónStarsHugo StiglitzRosita QuintanaDacia GonzálezIn the XIX century, Griselda is an actress who knows a pianist named Orlando. He takes her to live at the mansion of Eloisa, his mother. Griselda soon discovers that the entire family is completely insane.
- DirectorEdgardo CozarinskyStarsDennis HopperZouzouPeter Chatel"Les Apprentis Sorciers" is a thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one.
- StarsDavid TateJon GloverNorma RonaldIn a lawless future, an enforcer called Ragnarok interferes in various problematic situations on different planets.
- DirectorClaude d'AnnaStarsTomas MilianPamela SalemTim WoodwardJohn the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies rage and Herod's step-daughter and niece Salome seduces Herod by means of a torrid dance to give her the head of the prophet - but then tries to save the life of the man she has thus condemned. Updated to a WWII setting
- DirectorBeate KlöcknerStarsBarbara RudnikPer HolgherPeter Kaempfe"Headshot" - Annie is a cashier in a Munich Cinema Center. Her everyday life is the complete opposite of the exciting screen adventures she sells at the box office, so she fantasizes about the movies during the day. At night, she also begins to stage her own adventure in real life and is increasingly looking for danger and thrills.
- DirectorPál SándorStarsAndrás KernJean-Pierre LéaudTamás Major
- DirectorJosé Luis UrquietaStarsJorge LukePatricia RiveraSergio GoyriSilverio and Maximino are brothers. Both monopolize the dirty business of drug trafficking until Elena, jealous of Silverio, sets him up to confront his brother.
- DirectorAdolfo ArrietaStarsCaroline LoebXavier GrandèsDionys MascoloSince her childhood, Barbara dreams of the nocturnal visits by a mysterious firefighter.
- DirectorJean PourtaléStarsNiels ArestrupBrigitte RoüanMichel EspositoThese brats have understood that grown-ups failed and they do not need them anymore.
- DirectorWim VerstappenStarsKees BrusseAndrea DomburgGuus OsterCornelis van Doorn is the boss of the family business VD, a factory for meat and contraceptives. Cornelis is also the godfather of the strange company of the Van Doorn family: abuse of power, illegitimate children, semi-incest, manslaughter, abortion, promiscuity, unethical commerce and all other kinds of degeneration and decadence. When the old gentleman has a burned out, the new generation takes over the torch on the basis of the proven VD code.
- DirectorGustav EhmckStarsLinda ManzWal DavisMarie-Christine BarraultThe intelligent Linda, daughter of Joseph and Jane, takes a critical view of her parents' marriage. Her father's dominant behavior and her mother's indifference become so unbearable to her that she decides to run away. She manages to persuade Jane to accompany her.
- DirectorMiloslav LutherStarsArmin Mueller-StahlMax TidofWolfgang PreissIn the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart's death, the usual suspects (Konstanze, Salieri, van Swieten, etc.) are summoned to Mozart's room by Count Pergen, head of the secret police, who considered Mozart a potential revolutionary. Over the corpse, he interrogates them, trying to discover the true cause and significance of Mozart's demise.
- DirectorVolker VogelerStarsJudy StephenHugo BlancoTilo PrücknerAfter the US Civil War ended, a handful of defeated Southern soldiers return home, to find that their village is almost depopulated. Some find their wives have changed, that their children grew up and no longer recognize them; others find they are now widows; others try to find new relationships, by flirting or by force. At first, there is a reception, with dance and merriment. Then trouble starts - and the men find that the women are now ready to defend themselves, with the law of the court, or the law of the gun.
- DirectorGérard GuérinStarsMichael LonsdaleÉlise CaronJeanne HervialeKept prisoner by terrorists in an abandoned building in suburbs, a finance worker, Ash, manage to communicate with the outside world because of letters and videos. A film crew go to search him at the same time than police.
- DirectorPomme MeffreStarsDelphine SeyrigMichel AumontGeneviève FontanelA middle-aged woman coping with an ungovernable present and holding out hopes of escaping to a more pleasant past. She leaves her current residence to retreat to her provincial French hometown.
- DirectorJean-Claude BietteStarsJean-Christophe BouvetSonia SaviangeHoward VernonChristian takes his friend Ingrid's help to find out more about René, an artist.
- DirectorJean-Claude BietteStarsSonia SaviangeHoward VernonPhilippe CheminIn the suburbs of Paris, Hermann, former musician of the Berlin orchestra, directs a small theater troupe: The Theater of Matters. Dorothée, a former harpist employed in a travel agency, also dreams of going to the theater. She becomes the mistress of Hermann and, to make live the troupe, sells the diamond that had offered him a rich lover. She will finally be able to get on stage and appear in Schiller's "Marie Stuart" which will be played in front of a few spectators. But it does not matter: the troupe, bewitched by the magic of the theater, lives in hope, flippancy and humor. Yet the funds are running out and the rich suitor suddenly dies. Without new diamonds the troop may disappear. That's when Hermann receives a grant. The Theater of Matters continues. Without Dorothea.
- DirectorOddvar Bull TuhusStarsSvein ScharffenbergEva SevaldsonThea StabellThe Øyens' leave their 5 year old daughter to the babysitter, who later that night receives some mystical phone calls. The hunt has begun.
- DirectorJacques BaratierStarsCatherine JourdanIngrid CavenAlexandra SciclunaA sultry French boarding school for girls, in the early twenties. The young pupil Lucienne evades but returns with a weird police inspector who should protect her. Against what or whom? Solange, the psychic unstable gym teacher? Or the voyeuristic principal Madame de Challens? Or other girls?
- DirectorJacques BaratierStarsNathalie DelonMuriel CataláDidier HaudepinIt's summer in the south of France. A family decides to organize a big fest. There is Bernard, a doctor, and his sister Lise, a libertine architect, also teens Patrick and his brother Julien, both attracted to 15 year old Dina
- DirectorRené PerraudinStarsOtto SanderUdo SamelRomy HaagAgitation fills the film studios at Heiligwalde. The film star Maria Loria has been stabbed to death with a pair of scissors. According to all evidence, her partner Roger Moon appears to have been the killer. But he swears that he is innocent. This is the great hour for commissioner Spalt and his assistant Edgar: A series of mysterious clues finally leads the investigation to a solution of the crime; after all, the existence of all those involved is at stake...
- DirectorLothar LambertStarsLothar LambertDagmar BeiersdorfHans MarquardtA mousey, mild-mannered, mid-thirties bank clerk visits a cabaret and discovers his taste for drag and for the club's techie.
- DirectorLothar LambertStarsAlbert HeinsUlrike SchirmSusanne StahlA West Berlin couple hopes to solve their marital problems while on vacation in Spain. Instead, the tensions between the neglected and misunderstood woman and her annoyed and otherwise unsatisfied husband escalate soon afterwards. She starts an affair with her Persian masseur, he falls in love with a mute toilet attendant, whom he brings back to Berlin and takes in with himself and his two pubescent children, while the woman moves in with her masseur. But even the new constellations quickly get into crisis.
- DirectorLothar LambertStarsUlrike SchirmStefan MencheLothar LambertFour mediocre existences are on an increasingly desperate quest for love and sexual satisfaction in the urban jungle of West Berlin.
- DirectorJean-Jacques LebelStarsTaylor MeadRita RenoirJacques Seiler"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher, the work has been praised despite, and sometimes for, its lack of message.
- DirectorPaul MayStarsRené DeltgenAngelika HauffIlse SteppatCo-owners of a successful traveling circus have a rivalry over the affections of a young woman. One of them is mauled to death by a lion. Years later a series of accidents, attacks and mysterious deaths plague the circus.
- DirectorJean-Michel RouxStarsCatherine FrotDominique PinonYann ColletteIn the middle of the desert, a message of God, recorded on a magnetic tape, is hidden in the grave of a murdered missionary. The secret powers that dominate the planet send spies to the field to retrieve this document of an inestimable political and financial value. Between three missionaries of the Vatican, two French detectives, a female spy from Pekin Central Office and three agents of the San Francisco Mafia, all tactics are allowed.
- DirectorHelmut HerbstStarsJános BataBen BeckerLajos Dobák